COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTIONOnly available bottled (not bottle conditioned).This was the first beer brewed for the Duchy Originals organic range. The beer is brewed using a rare breed of organic barley - Plumage Archer - harvested from The Prince’s Home Farm at Highgrove.Duchy Originals Organic Ale has opted for a traditional, British barley variety Plumage Archer to give the beer a rich depth of flavour.The organic hops for this delicious beer are also British, First Gold, a new dwarf hop variety grown in Kent and Worcestershire. The beer is brewed to Duchy Originals' recipe.
The Duchy Originals Organic Ale is a ruby-coloured flavour-packed beer which combines the rich caramel flavours of the barley malt with the signature ripe orange nuance of the First Gold hop.

i think this might be decent as a pub ale, served warm via cask, but thousand of miles from it’s source, bottled, it just didn’t do it for me. All the boringness of a typical low abv English beer with few of the highlights.

Hazy reddish brown. No head,low carb.
Aroma seemed malty and rich and carmally at first giving the impression this was going to be stronger but was short lived and turned to Soy sauce. Smooth slickish,flat,watery,dull taste,has some butterscothch and carmel which makes it better.Seems stale/old. Flat and watery is not a good combo,probably poorly stored as well.Not shure how old this is either.

I have it under the other name and label:Duchy Organic Old ruby ale "Plumage Archer" 1905. Some earthey bitterness on a bit of an aggresive side,some like jamy fruityness with mabye a bit sour. Kinda hard to discribe what I taste but this is just the old ruby ale 1905 with the plumage archer barley and dwarf hop that is supposably not int that version and I had it yrs ago cheers

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